Posted on 08/31/2004 11:07:03 AM PDT by george wythe
Things couldn't look better for George W. Bush. Even before the Republican National Convention began, the president had started to register a bounce in the pollscoinciding with the successful Swift boat attacks on John Kerry's character. Bush has accomplished what no one would have dreamed of in July. He has forced Kerry to build his campaign around Vietnam and events that occurred more than 30 years ago, while Bush has deftly wrapped himself in 9-11 and is fighting today's real-time war on terror.
At the Time Warner media gala over the weekend, James Carville blew up at the mention of Kerry's campaign: "They're a perpetual committee listening to aperpetual focus group, and it's got to change," Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post quoted Carville as saying.
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Kerry never ONCE spoke of his 20 year Senate record.
Something tells me the Clinton goons would find a way to outbid Teresa, to keep Carville on the sidelines. The Clintons do NOT want Kerry to win, and Carville would rather work for Hillary in 2008 (and be kept in cushy little Demo-machine jobs in the meantime) than for Kerry now.
I tried following the silver star links for the original revision and the Lehman revision. They are no longer there, just the hyland revision.
Do they think deleting fraudulent material means the fraud never happened?
The other day I downloaded the Silver Star citations and I got the original and the Lehman. But the one linked to Hyland gave me the Lehman. I needed to go find the link to the Hyland. I don't know if they are moving things around or not.
No surprise (to us at least). The Democrats have been propped up and thoroughly accomodated by the nation's liberal newsrooms for decades. Old habits die hard and so do old mindsets. After Rush Limbaugh, everything changed.
The "old" media (network news, newspapers, weeky news magazines) are in their final death kick while the "new" media (talk radio, competetive 24-hour cable news, C-span, and the internet) are energized, motivated, and growing so fast it's hard to keep up.
Apparently nobody told the Democrats.
Big media could not contain it because they no longer control stories via their biased editing...alternative media has taken over. How they must hate it! They are becoming irrelevant simply because they are failed journalists and newsreporters.
Funny how the truth, or the balance as it were, of telling both sides of a story has taken Fox News Cable viewership on a continual upsweep.
Could not believe hearing tom brokaw say that president bush said to matt lauer:
"WE CAN NOT WIN THE WAR IN IRAQ??? WHAT??? I heard the president say to Matt Lauer-WE may never win the war on TERROR, there will BE NO FORMAL SURRENDER, NO SIGNED PIECE OF PAPER ON A TABLE SOMEWHERE...
Swift, huh? Trading the words IRAQ war for the words TERROR war.
I DISPISE TOM BROKAW. What a dishonorable man.
Kerry FIRED the adviser who told him NOT to FOCUS on VIETNAM...Lehane or Lelane, or something like that, was his name.
Kerry WANTED to appear to be a real fighter ( HEROIC VET, biker, skier, yacht captain, snowboarder,etc ), at least as MANLY as President Bush (the warrior), and has failed because he cannot change what he is (metro-sexual, manicured, blow-dried, girlie man) and cannot hide what he is from the American people without the mainstream press controlling what stories make it to front page news.
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